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Education for Capacity Building:New Strategies to Include ICT


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The social development commitments, variously endorsed by the Government of India, the World Summits and the UNESCO/UN- sponsored forum (E9, EFA, Health for all etc.) are achievable. But these can be achieved if only fragmentation L compartmentalization within an Department / Ministry of the Government (State/Federal/ Local) is avoided; and is totally re-engineered to develop as a New Education System that integrates across all relevant compartments, channels of communication, and developmental facilities, and is focused on strengthening community development endeavors. Furthermore, the electronic communication media (satellite, TV, FM radio, VCP, PC-network with modems, etc.) make it now possible to design and deliver such a system in the distance-education mode, to the unreached rural masses in the remotest comers of the country. Prof G. Ram Reddy, noted that Distance Education is like the "Panchayat Raj" in governance: it enables decentralization, and hence localization; and empowerment of the common man. What is urgently needed is a design for creating an empowering system of education that is freed from the single-minded pursuit of wealth and is dedicated to nurturing the hidden potential within every individual member of society, a system designed to usher in a new and ever-advancing civilization. The paper highlights the inadequacies of the current education system and of education administration, and concludes by proposing a few principles to guide the efforts to bring about a radical transformation within the Indian society and open new vistas of opportunities for the advancement of the nation.
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Vinay Dharmadhikari
e-Govemance Group, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government, of India, New Delhi, India

Abstract


The social development commitments, variously endorsed by the Government of India, the World Summits and the UNESCO/UN- sponsored forum (E9, EFA, Health for all etc.) are achievable. But these can be achieved if only fragmentation L compartmentalization within an Department / Ministry of the Government (State/Federal/ Local) is avoided; and is totally re-engineered to develop as a New Education System that integrates across all relevant compartments, channels of communication, and developmental facilities, and is focused on strengthening community development endeavors. Furthermore, the electronic communication media (satellite, TV, FM radio, VCP, PC-network with modems, etc.) make it now possible to design and deliver such a system in the distance-education mode, to the unreached rural masses in the remotest comers of the country. Prof G. Ram Reddy, noted that Distance Education is like the "Panchayat Raj" in governance: it enables decentralization, and hence localization; and empowerment of the common man. What is urgently needed is a design for creating an empowering system of education that is freed from the single-minded pursuit of wealth and is dedicated to nurturing the hidden potential within every individual member of society, a system designed to usher in a new and ever-advancing civilization. The paper highlights the inadequacies of the current education system and of education administration, and concludes by proposing a few principles to guide the efforts to bring about a radical transformation within the Indian society and open new vistas of opportunities for the advancement of the nation.

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